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In late June 2026 every one of the Royal Navy’s five in-service Astute-class attack submarines was tied up alongside: HMS Astute waiting at Devonport...
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In late June 2026 every one of the Royal Navy’s five in-service Astute-class attack submarines was tied up alongside: HMS Astute waiting at Devonport...
The US Navy built the F-14 Tomcat and the AIM-54 Phoenix to kill Soviet bombers, fired three Phoenixes in anger and scored zero kills....
At 1:30 a.m. on January 17, 1991, USS Missouri, laid down in 1941, fired the first battleship Tomahawk of the war. Over five weeks...
At 10:07 p.m. on March 21, 1984, the 80,000-ton aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, making 15 knots through the Sea of Japan during Team...
During NATO’s Ocean Venture exercise in 1981, a 1960s-vintage Canadian Oberon-class diesel submarine running silent on battery power slipped past the destroyers, submarines and...
The Navy is retiring its biggest Tomahawk magazines: four Ohio-class SSGNs at 154 missiles each and Ticonderoga cruisers with 122 cells, replaced by Burkes...
China’s shipbuilding capacity is 200 times America’s. The Navy’s answer, the 10,000-ton, $8 billion SSN(X), slipped from the mid-2030s to the 2040s because Electric...
The 1998 Strategic Defence Review gave the Royal Navy two 30,000-to-40,000-ton flattops with about 50 aircraft to replace three Invincible-class light carriers too small...
A former US Navy ASW operator says the Kilo-class ‘black hole’ hype was a joke. Quiet only at 3 knots, it has to snorkel...
“Some of the best advice I’ve had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.” Chester Nimitz ran USS Decatur aground as an ensign and...